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Top CNS stories for today including the Senate voted to terminate President Donald Trump’s declaration of a national emergency at the southern border; Former El Paso Congressman Beto O’Rourke announced he will seek the Democratic nomination for president in 2020; British Prime Minister Theresa May fended off threats from opponents seeking to take control of the Brexit process away from her government, and more.

/ March 14, 2019

Your Thursday night briefing from the staff of Courthouse News

Top CNS stories for today including the Senate voted to terminate President Donald Trump’s declaration of a national emergency at the southern border; Former El Paso Congressman Beto O’Rourke announced he will seek the Democratic nomination for president in 2020; British Prime Minister Theresa May fended off threats from opponents seeking to take control of the Brexit process away from her government, and more.

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National

Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, arrives in the Senate where she has said she will vote for a resolution to annul President Donald Trump's declaration of a national emergency at the southwest border, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 14, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

1.) The Senate on Thursday voted to terminate President Donald Trump’s declaration of a national emergency at the southern border, delivering an historic, if likely short-lived, rebuke to the president.

(AP file photo/Eric Gay)

2.) Beto O’Rourke, the former El Paso congressman who shot to Democratic stardom in his strong but unsuccessful bid to unseat Sen. Ted Cruz last fall, announced Thursday that he will seek the Democratic nomination for president in 2020.

3.) Accusing him of misleading Congress and withholding key documents, House Democrats on Thursday tore into Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross over the Trump administration’s decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census.

FILE - In this Dec. 14, 2012, file photo, officials stand outside of Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., where authorities say gunman Adam Lanza opened fire inside school killing 20 first-graders and six educators at the school, and killed himself as police arrived. Documents from the investigation into the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School are shedding light on the Lanza's anger, scorn for other people, and deep social isolation in the years leading up to the shooting. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

4.) Reviving a lawsuit by the families of Sandy Hook victims, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled 4-3 Thursday that federal law does not pre-empt claims over the marketing of the Bushmaster assault rifle used in the 2012 elementary school massacre.

Summer Zervos leaves a New York appeals hearing on Oct. 18, 2018. The court ruled Thursday that President Donald Trump isn't immune from a defamation lawsuit filed by the former "Apprentice" contestant. In 2016, after Zervos accused Trump of unwanted kissing and groping, Trump called her a liar. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, FILE)

5.) In a stinging rebuke of President Trump’s assertion of immunity, a New York appeals court ruled 3-2 Thursday to advance defamation claims by ex-“Apprentice” contestant Summer Zervos.

International

Prime Minister Theresa May leaves 10 Downing Street in London on Jan. 16, 2019, a day after Parliament overwhelmingly rejected her divorce deal with the European Union, plunging the Brexit process into chaos and triggering a no-confidence vote that could topple her government. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

6.) On another night of drama in the House of Commons, Prime Minister Theresa May on Thursday evening fended off threats from opponents seeking to take control of the Brexit process away from her government.

(AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

7.) Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei and a U.S. subsidiary pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges including conspiracy, fraud and money laundering.

This Oct. 16, 2007, file photo shows the entrance hall of Interpol's headquarters in Lyon, central France. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani, File)

8.) Three years after customs officers detained him on an Interpol red notice, a U.S. citizen claims in a federal complaint that Interpol is helping the United Arab Emirates to lash out at political rivals.

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